Your 2077. [1]

1. I have consulted Berendsen with regard to this telegram and he
has agreed to cable to his Government for instructions. He and I
both think that it is possible that the President will call the
Council together but consider that the ground should be carefully
explored beforehand to see under what conditions it will meet and
that it would be premature to make a formal approach until this is
done.

2. While the President may very well call a meeting of the Council
it is exceedingly doubtful whether he would treat it seriously or
would allow it to be made a vehicle for decisions on the important
points you mention and if he did not the effect might merely be to
sidetrack us.

3. I am strongly of the opinion that we should seek information as
to the Allied policy and assurances on the points you mention. I
have a personal preference for approaching this through diplomatic
channels rather than in the Council, the proceedings of which are
not sufficiently private but if you so instruct me I will work
wholeheartedly for the calling of the Council.

4. With regard to paragraph 7 the President's report you refer to
is apparently from New York Herald Tribune which does not mention
me at all. This says-
'It was learned that the new Australian Ambassador, Herbert Evatt,
had no instructions from his Government regarding the Council.' No
statement of this kind has been given by me to the Herald Tribune
representative or to any other journalist nor has any question
been put to me on it and the report is obviously fishing for some
statement.